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May Sinclair
English writer and suffragist (1863–1946) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other people with similar names, see Mary Sinclair (disambiguation).
May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 – 14 November 1946), a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry.[1] She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. She once dressed up as a demure, rebel Jane Austen for a suffrage fundraising event.[2] Sinclair was also a significant critic in the area of modernist poetry and prose, and she is attributed with first using the term 'stream of consciousness' in a literary context, when reviewing the first volumes of Dorothy Richardson's novel sequence Pilgrimage (1915–1967), in The Egoist, April 1918.
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![]() May Sinclair c. 1912 | |
Born | Mary Amelia St. Clair (1863-08-24)24 August 1863 Rock Ferry, Cheshire, England |
Died | 14 November 1946(1946-11-14) (aged 83) Bierton, Buckinghamshire, England |
Occupation | Novelist and poet |
Nationality | British |
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